Midlife Matrimony ~ Janelle L. Streed

My friend, Janelle, with whom I went to high school back in Apple Valley, Minnesota, published this most touching poem on her MySpace blog.

In this poem, she so very accurately expresses much of what I feel nowadays....

Gladly will I risk the trials
of a widow's memory and
the dipping,tipping scales of
an inlaw's alliance to capture
the heart of my beloved
From this day forth, I vow to
record every exhaled awe,
every smile's source and
every intimate expression
as seeds to harvest in the fall
of my life when, alone, I need
to regain the confidence of
being loved beyond reason
by one who established deep-
rooted memories across the
desolate fields of my youth

© Janelle L. Streed
04/09/05